تحليل جغرافي لظاهرة ترمل النساء في محافظة كربلاء

Geographical Analysis of Widowing Phenomenon in Karbala Province

Abstract
The phenomenon of widowhood is one of the most important phenomena that has social and economic impacts, and affects all members of society, and that its increase may have a negative repercussion, so this phenomenon is of importance and deserves research. The main objective of the study is a spatio-temporal analysis of cases of widowhood of women in Karbala governorate, and the study took administrative units at the level of districts and sub-districts as a field for it, in addition to that it came at the urban and rural levels, relying on the analytical approach and the descriptive approach to determine the spatio-temporal variation of the distribution, as well as the The field study and the conduct of a questionnaire for the year 2020 by distributing (1408) forms, i.e. (8%) of the total number of widowed women amounting to (17103) widows.
As well as employing quantitative and statistical methods, and to achieve the purpose of this study, it required that it be in four chapters and an introduction to the phenomenon. The importance of the study is that it is one of the population problems and that widowhood has many unhealthy consequences for societies, especially in developing countries. The study reached several results, the most important of which is that there is a direct increase in the number of widows in different age groups for the years (2013, 2020, 2006), and the category of widowed women at the age of (30-39) has the highest numbers and percentages in relation to the other groups, whose number of families is ( 1-3) An individual in the first rank, and those who have an intermediate certificate. The study also found a number of ways to alleviate their suffering, represented by seeking to improve the economic and social levels of widows, and alleviating the effects of widowhood on the widow and her family.